Maggs Bros. Ltd.

DOUGHTY (C.M.)

Correspondence with Doughty’s publisher 'Messers Duckworth', and specifically…

A rich archive of an effort to restore English literature

£8,500

DE LA MARE (Walter).

Autograph Manuscript verse addressed to “Dear S.C.R.” [Sydney… 1940.

“A Fellow – with that great big F”

£150

POWELL (Anthony).

Typed letter Signed ('Anthony Powell') to a Mr.… 1972.

Powell writes on the completion of "the penultimate volume of the series" (Temporary Kings, 11th vol in his A Dance to the Music of Time)

£200

HEANEY (Seamus).

Squarings. Twelve Poems. Lithographs by Felim Egan, 1980.

'SHIFTING BRILLIANCIES' SIGNED BY HEANEY AND FELIM EGAN

£6,000

HEANEY (Seamus).

Death of a Naturalist, 1966.

£3,500

HEANEY (Seamus).

Death of A Naturalist, 1966.

£5,000

HEANEY (Seamus).

Beowulf, 1999.

£1,750

STANLEY Henry Morton (1841-1904)

Autograph Quotation Signed ('Henry M. Stanley'), 1892.

£750

POWELL (Anthony).

Temporary Kings, 1973.

£75

SPARK (Muriel).

Out of a Book, 1933.

£4,500

BEERBOHM, Max (1872-1956). Author and Caricaturist.

Autograph Letter Signed ("Max") to "My dear Mrs…

“excuse bad writing and confused thinking" - an amicable relic of an 1890s friendship

£495

MULDOON (Paul).

Knowing My Place, 1971.

£2,500

WODEHOUSE P. G. (1887-1975). British author.

Five Typed Letters Signed, One Typed Postcard Signed,… 1958.

"I shall have a Jeeves novel published soon”

£3,500

DICKENS (Charles).

Master Humphrey's Clock. [Embracing] Barnaby Rudge, [and] The… 1840.

£3,500

JOYCE (James).

Autograph Letter Signed to Maurice Martin Du Gard, 1922.

JOYCE, IN 1922, ON TRANSLATING DESIRE

£10,000

LARKIN (Philip).

Aubade, 1980.

£1,000

BENNETT (Arnold).

The Pretty Lady, 1917.

ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT

£7,500

DE LA MARE (Walter).

The Veil and other Poems, 1922.

£350

FLEMING (Ian).

The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962.

UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN RARE PROOF DUST JACKET

£7,500

JOYCE (James)

Ulysses, 1936.

£27,500

[WODEHOUSE (P.G.)] & BACON (Peggy).

Uncle Fred in the Springtime: original dust jacket… 1939.

£6,250

CARTER (Angela).

The Bloody Chamber, 1979.

£550

THOMAS (Dylan).

Collected Poems. 1934-1952, 1952.

ONE OF ONLY 65 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

£10,000

SIMENON (Georges).

Danger Ahead, 1955.

£1,500

MEREDITH (George).

Egoist". [The Egoist], 1894.

£1,250

SYMONS (A.J.A.)

H.M. Stanley, 1933.

THE DEDICATION COPY

£1,500

RHYS (Jean).

Sleep It Off Lady, 1976.

£1,250

DICK (Philip K.)

The World Jones Made, 1968.

£2,000

HUGHES (Langston). & DECARAVA (Roy)., photographer.

The Sweet Flypaper of Life, 1955.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF GEOFFREY BRIDSON

£1,500

COLERIDGE (Sara).

Phantasmion. A Fairy Tale, 1874.

A COLERIDGE FAMILY COPY

£2,500

MARX (Enid)

Nursery Rhymes, 1993.

One of 50 signed copies

£800

MANTEL (Hilary)

Vacant Possession, 1986.

£1,200

ROWLING (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997.

£5,000

CHURCHILL W. S.

Autograph Letter Signed ('Winston S. Churchill') to 'My… 1910.

Letter written while Churchill was Home Secretary thanking Mallet

£3,000

RHYS (Jean).

Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966.

£650

ROWLING (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. [with]… 1999.

£15,000

[CHURCHILL (Winston S.)] & DAVIES (Joseph E.)

Mission to Moscow, 1941.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

£3,500

DICK (Philip K.)

The Game-Players of Titan, 1963.

£1,800

DICK (Philip K.)

The World Jones Made. [bound tête-bêche with:] Agent… 1956.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF DICK’S SECOND PUBLISHED NOVEL

£2,000

BRADBURY (Ray).

Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962.

£2,500

[FEARN (John Russell)]. & STATTEN (Vargo). Pseudonym.

Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.

£7,500

ELIOT (T.S.)

The Waste Land, 1922.

A fine copy of this cornerstone of modernist poetry.

£140,000